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Tag Archives: Lake of the Ozarks
WILLMORE LAKE SITES Brochure, Lake of the Ozarks
“Escape the pressure of the city for a life at the Lake!” proclaims this late 1940s or early 1950s real estate brochure. (click to enlarge) Interior copy promises a private domain to armchair shoppers reading and dreaming from their harried … Continue reading
OLD LINN CREEK – before the ‘flood’
(click to enlarge) 8 x 10 press photo captioned “Move Entire Town to Make Room for World’s Largest Artificial Lake” (photo credit: ACME) This press photo dated March 26, 1931 shows what remained of the soon-to-be-covered-with-forty-feet-of-water town of Linn Creek, … Continue reading
Gatlin’s ROCKY COMFORT Lodge / Boat Yard on Lake of the Ozarks
We can surmise that this is a surveyor’s map of a subdivision of seventy-four lots laid out by then-owners H. O. (Orville) and Ruth Gatlin, notarized on July 6, 1937 by “George Clifford Williams, Notary Public in and for Morgan … Continue reading
Review of THE SCARS OF PROJECT 459: The Environmental Story of Lake of the Ozarks
Pollution at Lake of the Ozarks, complicated by denial and cover-ups Naturally environmentalists are more concerned about the degradation of rivers, especially if they cut through uninhabited, scenic country, than a reservoir whose shores are lined with condos and whose … Continue reading
TRUMAN DAM SOUVENIRS – hard to find
Before Truman’s dam waters rose, there was promise of new entrepreneurial opportunities to be had with the coming of a mammoth lake. We found these roadside offerings during paddlefish snagging season in the mid 1970s. Since the dam closed, … Continue reading
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BAGNELL DAM LICENSE PLATE TOPPER
Cast aluminum and painted license plate frame, circa 1940s Lake of the Ozarks filled in 1931 but the Depression and World War II stymied its tourism development. From the late 1940s on, gift shops located along Highway 54 offered hundreds … Continue reading
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Governor McClurg Excursion Boat on Lake of the Ozarks
Advertising Brochure, 1940s We devoted a full page (p. 129 to be precise) to the Gov. McClurg in Damming the Osage but we just acquired this ephemeral treasure – a brochure advertising the dining, dancing and photography opportunities available to … Continue reading
HISTORIC HURRICANE DECK BRIDGE OVER LAKE OF THE OZARKS DYNAMITED
The last of three bridges designed by Svedrup and Parcel dynamited and replaced by new span. December 8, 2014 – Missouri’s highways and transportation commissioner pushed the plunger, detonating dynamite on a 740 foot section of the Hurricane Deck bridge … Continue reading
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Natural Bridge at HA HA TONKA
Real Photo Postcard, circa 1930 Ha Ha Tonka is a cornucopia of karst features – springs, caves, cliffs, sinkholes and a natural bridge., was described in a 1940s brochure: “the 600-acre tract includes all the natural wonders of the place, … Continue reading
GLAMORLAND – the Ozarks, 1944
By Richard Gear Hobbs, PhD, copyright 1944. This is a rather scarce but not particularly valuable example of the kind of soporific writing Mark Twain loved to satirize. His ridicule of James Fenimore Cooper (see “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” – … Continue reading